It’s a saying Chileans love to repeat. Dios está en todas partes, pero atiende en Santiago. “God is everywhere, but His office hours are in Santiago.” But if that’s the case, it’s the Chilean capital’s museums that serve as the Man Upstairs’s hall of records. When Chile’s first museum was built in 1830, right after […]
Part weather-beaten seaport, part artists’ bohemia, part living watercolor, Valparaiso, Chile is a Latin American city like no other. It’s a hillside city, with a mazelike warren of ramshackle houses crowding its slopes. It’s also a city of nostalgia, drowning in memories of its former maritime glory. But most of all, it’s a city by […]
John Kardys, a professional photographer from Baltimore, MD, recently returned from a Chile Vacation arranged by South American Vacations. He visited Santiago, Atacama, Easter Island, and the Chilean Lake District, one of our most popular Chile tours, and was kind enough to share with us the amazing photos that he took of the trip. The […]
We just received this press release from Turismo Chile, the country’s travel promotion department on the status of the country’s tourism infrastructure. The gist of it is that the Atacama Desert area, Easter Island, and Patagonia were unaffected by the recent earthquake. In Santiago (Central Region), the airport suffered damage to the passenger terminal, but […]
Early in the morning of Saturday, February 27th, an 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck Concepcion, Chile’s second largest city. So far, the death toll is over 700 people. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all of the families and friends of the victims. Chile’s capital city of Santiago, which is more than 200 miles northeast of […]
